Shannon Brown just stopped missing shots. I'm guessing nobody else here cared enough to watch a pair of lottery teams tonight, but he was EN FUEGO for about ten minutes there. Pretty much put the Pistons away, after they'd been hanging around (read: Suns had refused to pull away).
In other news Larry Frank again refuses to play Drummond enough. Andre Drummond needs to be on the floor more, period. He is going to be a monster if the Pistons don't **** him up - he is LEGIT. Not nearly as raw as advertised.
Yeah, this kid is looking to be A to level player soon. I was hoping that the suns would go after him and trade up but it's the suns, they don't trade up.
Without a doubt. He had two big knocks - he was passive, and he was raw. He is admittedly still showing some passive tendencies. I felt like he needed to be more aggressive against Houston. But tonight he's not been too passive - but hasn't been on the floor enough at all. Good things seem to happen when he's on the floor - he makes plays, he's a physical monster, he has more moves than you'd expect... He's going to be a hell of an NBA player with that one caveat: if the Pistons don't **** him up.
And when you're 7'/270+ - if you're a hell of an NBA player, you're a perennial All Star.
Looking at the shots he made in that highlight video, and the numbers on the box - the fact is that the way he is getting the points is the same as it always has been. He's hitting from the outside reliably - more than well enough to be above average in efficiency... and he's not settling for too many midrange jumpers, focusing on going hard to the hole and getting to the line. If you're capable of hitting that three ball reliably AND confident enough to go hard to the basket - you're going to score. Period. He's their number one option, and they've at least got a capable number two in Lin. He's going to put up points against good defenses, and efficiently. The question is whether or not they can put up enough outside of those guys to keep winning.
A couple great things about rooting for a team with no expectations that just traded away one of the best players in the league in his prime. One, I decided this afternoon that I wanted to go to opening night and easily scooped up a couple good tickets for $15. Two, I got to watch a bunch of nobodies go out there and hustle, play hard and play together. The Magic certainly aren't a good team anymore, but damnit I'm still going to root for them and it was fun to watch tonight.
Their effort was god awful tonight. All of the pregame talk comparing the game to the first game back in the Superdome had me worried. NYK played amazing though. They beat the franchise record of 3's against the Heat (18), set by, guess who, NY.
If this is how Kobe has to play so LAL simply doesn't get blown out, how many games before Kobe dies?
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